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Yip the EPL just got more boring.
I'm glad to see the back of him. It used to be that no man was bigger than any club. Now it's sad to see once proud clubs bend over backwards to accommodate these over paid louts because the money has taken over the game.
To be fair, Manchester City is a very small club.
Lol, you can't be serious. City have a long and proud history and until their recent spell of mediocrity and relegations, were winners of League championships and FA cups and a history of playing in Europe as well. Indeed, when I grew up, City were a bigger club than United. They are not all johnny come latelys you know, they are a big club with a support in Manchester bigger or equal to Utd.
I suppose it's normal to think like that now that TV football has taken over and every man and his dog support Utd these days. And of course City found a pile of cash recently and the new fans around the world think they are imposters. They're not. to anyone in the UK they are a big club and always will be.
This from Wikipedia...
Domestic
League
First Division/Premier League[74]
Winners (3): 1936–37, 1967–68, 2011–12
Runners-up (3): 1903–04, 1920–21, 1976–77
Second Division/First Division[74]
Winners (7): (record): 1898–99, 1902–03, 1909–10, 1927–28, 1946–47, 1965–66, 2001–02
Runners-up (4): 1895–96, 1950–51, 1988–89, 1999–2000
Third Division
Play-off Winners: 1998–99
Cups
FA Cup
Winners (5): 1904, 1934, 1956, 1969, 2011
Runners-up (4): 1926, 1933, 1955, 1981
Football League Cup
Winners (2): 1970, 1976
Runners-up (1): 1974
FA Community Shield
Winners (4): 1937, 1968, 1972, 2012
Runners-up (5): 1934, 1956, 1969, 1973, 2011
Full Members Cup
Runners-up (1): 1986
European
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
Winners (1): 1970
Utter rubbish.
More rubbish. City fans still dress up as blue seats then for their home games then?
I'm amazed how you can say that unless you are related to me. Are you going to back that up?
In the meantime, I remember this quite well. City were filled with big stars in the 70s, but I suppose DStv wasn't about then?
Maybe they don't have 3/4 of their stadium filled by foreign 'supporters'?
But in Manchester, it's often said they have more fans. Maybe now it's changed with City's poor spell but hey, I guess they will have as many Indonesians, South Africans and Yanks climbing on the bandwagon soon enough.
I don't know how anyone needs to be related to you to know that City were never a bigger club than United.
Two old City canards in one.
Grief, you know, I'm saying this from the top of my head because I grew up in the 70s in Scotland and everyone I knew had a Scottish team and an English team. Some of my mates supported City and still do to this day.
But looking now at Wikipedia at the comparative success of the clubs about the time, City won a lot more than Utd did. Also on Wikipedia, a reference to the fans...
Would you care to relate your memories or experiences?
In the meantime, do yourself a favour and read this. In fact read the whole page then compare the 60s/70s/80s successes between City and United.
And don't tell me I'm talking schyte if you've got nothing to relate to and are just a typical little overseas fanboi with no relation to the club other than a DStv subscription.
Even when they were mediocre, they were much more respectable than they are now.. I really appreciated City when they had Elano/Petrov and were doing things the proper way
At the beggining of the 70s United had 7 First Division titles, 3 FA Cups and an European Cup to their name and you want to tell me City were the bigger club? Madness.
http://www.red11.org/mufc/stats/attendances.htm
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I used to dig Mario til he tried to stomp Parker's head. That's when I realised he wasn't eccentric, he was straight up nuts.
As for spizz, City mayb have won more at certain times, but they've never been a bigger club than United.
When they won the League in 1968, United had an average of 20 000 more supporters per match. Same for when Old Trafford was bombed and United had to play at Maine Road, they brought in more supporters than City - in their own stadium.
Even without the outsiders, United has more support in Manchester than City. This whole nonsense of Manchester being blue is just a myth.
As for spizz, City mayb have won more at certain times, but they've never been a bigger club than United.
When they won the League in 1968, United had an average of 20 000 more supporters per match. Same for when Old Trafford was bombed and United had to play at Maine Road, they brought in more supporters than City - in their own stadium.
Even without the outsiders, United has more support in Manchester than City. This whole nonsense of Manchester being blue is just a myth.
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lol what? you grew up in the 60's??? cos City were winners way back then... In the past 129 years City were great in the first 60 years, whilst United were great in the last 50 - there were 10 years where both City and United won trophies you telling me you grew up in 1960?
Why don't you stop quoting Wiki junk and actually read up on City's site about their history???
http://www.mcfc.com/the-club/club-history
I'm sorry to say 3 league trophy's and a couple of division 1 and cups does not make them any better than Leeds United... who boasts a much more impressive title record than City:
http://www.leedsunited.com/page/Honours/0,,10273,00.html
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Now, United are one of if not the biggest club in the world. Of course they have always been one of the giants of England, but back when I was a kid, they were just one of several 'big' clubs and these big clubs were many. Perhaps because there was no domination for the sustained periods that we see now, starting really with Liverpool in the 80s and of course United from the 90s onwards. In between Arsenal had a good era as did Chelsea to a lesser extent.
Money was not the dominating factor as it was now and the 'two foreigners to a team' rule also kept things rather subdued to a point. And so it was in the 70s, when I was a kid. City had the big stars and United were relegated.
But yeah, whatever. Hopefully you've learnt City have never been a 'very small club'. And to say so with so much arrogance says so much more about your foray into English football than you'd really want people to know.
No. I grew up in the 70s. I was born in 66.
You obviously don't remember United getting relegated in 74 or when SAF couldn't buy a win in the 80s and was a Wednesday night game away from the sack? Greif, they went long periods of mediocre.
And yet through all that they were always bigger than City.
I beg to differ. I've been to Manchester. I have friends there, I know people who support both teams and I know a fair bit about the history and tradition of football in the UK from outside of reading about it.
Do you think if United went down a couple of divisions over a couple of seasons they would still pull in 30,000 without the help of a few thousand tourists? And one thing you fail to realise talking about historic attendances, is that the people of Manchester used to watch City one week, United the next. Like Liverpool, they were famous for it.
Whatever matey, I'm just getting a bit caught up in the City are a very small team nonsense. Wasn't looking for a playground argument.
ye I wasn't born in 74hence why I joked about you being born in the 60's
I was indeed
And Leeds were THE team of the era, bigger than United and City combined. Probably because they were full of Jocks at the time of course
Not sure how you 'beg to differ' with accurate, factual information, and your hypothetical siutation bears no discussion because we are discussing what actually happened, not what could happen. Regarding your comment about Mancunians watching City one week and United the next, that's doubtful. United have pulled in more supporters than City since 1946, so even if some were watching both, far more were watching just United
As for your playground argument comment, if you say so. I haven't said anything that would warrant that, but OK.
As for your playground argument comment, if you say so. I haven't said anything that would warrant that, but OK.